Rampaging Las Vegas Couple 'Too Radical' For Bundy Ranch

The couple suspected in Sunday's Las Vegas shopping center shooting tried to join the armed standoff against federal agents at Cliven Bundy's Nevada ranch in April, but they were asked to leave for being "too radical," Bundy's son said.

Jerad and Amanda Miller did not "align themselves" with the April protest's main issues, Ammon Bundy told The Associated Press.

"Not very many people were asked to leave," he said. "I think they may have been the only ones."

Cliven Bundy, 67, has been engaged in a 20-year legal fight over cattle-grazing on federal land. The patriarch of a large Mormon family, Bundy became a conservative folk hero of sorts because of his standoff with the government, but he later drew criticism for his comments that black people were "better off as slaves, picking cotton."

When cornered by officers, Amanda Miller shot her husband several times and then herself.

A friend of the couple's, Kelley Fielder, was distraught Monday, convinced she could have done something to stop the attack. Amanda Miller cryptically told her "If I die ... I die," the morning of the rampage, Fielder said.

"I got five deaths on my shoulders," Fielder said, crying. "I should have called the cops."